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DICTIONARY. 



AUTHENTICATED, made certain. 

 AVOCATION, a business. 

 AZOTE NITROGEN, an element of many 

 articles of food, especially of flesli. 



B 



BALKING, refusing to pull or go forward. 



BASE, foundation. 



BENEATH, under the lower part. 



BESTUD, to set thickly; to cover with 

 patches or spots. 



BEVELING, cutting with a slope or bevel. 



BILIARY, relating to the bile. 



BOOT, a leather boot worn to prevent one foot 

 cutting the other, called, in Europe, buffer. 



BOUNDED, surrounded. « 



BOUGIE, an instrument to open the urethra, 

 or urinary passage. 



BREEDING IN AND IN, putting a mare to 

 a horse of the same family or stock. 



BRIDOON, an extra bridle-bit used in con- 

 junction with another, each having a 

 separate rein. 



C 



CANNON-BONE, the shank, or bone below 

 the knee or hock. 



CANKER, the name given a certain kind 

 of eating sores. 



CAPSULAR LIGAMENTS, the ligaments 

 surrounding the joints. 



CAPSICUM, Cayenne pepper; a small red 

 pepper. 



CAPILLARIES, the little fine vessels con- 

 necting the arteries and veins. 



CARMINATIVES, medicines that drive wind 

 out of the stomach and bowels. 



CARBON, the principal part of wood; char- 

 coal is impure carbon; poisonous sub- 

 stance in the blood, extracted by the ox- 

 ygen of the air in the lungs; diamond. 



CARCASS, the animal body. 



vCARTILAGE, gristle; a smooth white sub- 

 stance covering the ends of bones mov- 

 ing or working on each other, as in 

 joints, etc. 



CARPED, gathered up; rounded. 



CASTRATE, to deprive of the seeds, or tes- 

 ticles. 



CATHETER, an instrument to draw off the 

 water, urine, etc. 



CATHARTIC, medicines which move the 

 bowels; a physic. 



CAUTERIZE, to burn the flesh with medi- 

 cine or a hot iron. 



CAUSTIC, a medicine which burns or de- 

 stroys the flesh, when touched with it. 



CAVITY, a hollow, low, or open space. 



CELEBRITY, distinction; greatness; fa- 

 mousness. 



CELLULAR TISSUE, the tissue that joins 

 the skin to the body, and unites the 

 parts or fibers of the muscles, and in 

 which the fat is deposited. 



CHAFF, a name given to cut feed, hay, 

 straw, etc. 



CHARACTERISTIC, a symptom of charac- 

 ter; a disposition of, or a natural and 

 general instinct. 



CHARACTERIZE, to distinguish. 



CHEMICAL, relating to chemistry. 



CHRONIC, a lingering disease, after the 

 acute stage. 



CIRCUMFERENCE, the distance around 

 any thing. 



CIRCUMSCRIBED, marked around, limited. 



CLEFT, a notch; a division; a furrow. 



COAGULATE, to clot, or thicken like blood, 

 or become like jelly. 



COAGULABLE LYMPH, albumen, which 

 see. 



COEXIST, to be or exist together. 



COHESION, sticking to; sticking together. 



COHORT, a large number. 



COMBUSTION, burning. 



COMPONENT, entering into as a part. 



CONCAVE, a hollow, or cupped surface; the 

 opposite of convex. 



CONCEPTION, the act of getting with young, 

 after service by the male. 



CONDITION, in good plight; fleshy. 



CONGESTION, the clogging of the blood in 

 the parts, lungs, ere. 



CONSTITUTING, forming; making up. 



CONTAGIOUS, catching; infectious diseases 

 are contagious. 



CONT.VCT, lying or coming together. 



